The institution is starting afresh with its investment activities, having brought the management of its spinouts back in-house after Touchstone.

Investors have ploughed almost as much money into spinouts in the first six months of the year as they did for all of 2020.

Quantum computing remains an area fraught with challenges, but key breakthroughs this month show it is not out of reach.

We chat with Michael Kearney, principal at The Engine – the tough tech incubator and patient capital fund backed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University – about the importance of hiring diverse teams (in spinouts and in fund management), the highly unique ecosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the reasons why the journey […]

We chat with Jason Whitney, vice-president of venture development at IU Ventures and executive director of the IU Angel Network, about the Angel Network, why it takes care of due diligence for investors and why it emphasises educating angels. He also discusses the origins and purpose of the Sports Innovation Initiative, which focuses on startups […]

Global University Venturing's publisher Mawsonia has been named a 2021 recipient of the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade.

Sara Wallin is the relatively new chief executive of Chalmers Ventures, having only joined the incubator and venture arm of Chalmers University of Technology in December 2020. But she brought with her a wealth of experience and she tells us why she took the job at Chalmers, and explains the importance of requiring portfolio companies […]

Historically left behind by their peers in the golden triangle, universities in the north are stepping up with their own funds, accelerators and collaborations.